Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Edward Redfield’s The Upper Delaware
The Upper Delaware, Edward Willis Redfield, oil on canvas, roughly 38 x 50 inches (96 x 127 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high res (33mb) image available on Wikimedia commons; original is in the collection of the James A Michenner Art Museum in Bucks county PA, which unfortunately does not…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Leighton’s In Time of Peril
In Time of Peril, Edmund Leighton, oil on canvas, roughly 49 x 66 inches ( 124 x 169 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Aukland Art Gallery. Edmund Blair Leighton, a British artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape, Frits Thaulow, pastel and watercolor on canvas, roughly 22×36″ (55×92 cm). Link is to past auction on Christie’s (large image here), I would assume present location is a private collection. No one painted the surface character of small streams, winter or otherwise, like 19th century Norwegian Painter Frits Thaulow.
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2022!
As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve since 2006, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of American illustrator J. C. Leyendecker’s wonderful New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post, in this case from 1922. Leyendecker was the first to represent the new year as a baby (originally —…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fragonard wash drawing
View of an Italianate park with figures, a villa behind, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, brown wash over brown ink lines and black chalk, roughly 13 x 11″ (33 x 47cm); link is to Sotheby’s past auction, large image here. In this beautifully sensitive drawing, 18th century French painter, draftsman ad printmaker Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who specialized in such…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emelie Preyer Still Life with Grapes and Peaches
Still Life with Grapes and Peaches, Emelie Preyer, oil on canvas, roughly 7 x 9″ (17 x 23 cm) A wonderfully tactile still life from German painter Emelie Preyer, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I love the she has emphasized imperfections, with the inclusion of the fly (or perhaps…